Affiliation:
1. National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Here we present the first attempt to quantify
Legionella pneumophila
cell numbers within individual amoeba hosts that may be released into engineered water systems. The maximum numbers of culturable
L. pneumophila
cells grown within
Acanthamoeba polyphaga
and
Naegleria fowleri
were 1,348 (mean, 329) and 385 (mean, 44) CFU trophozoite
−1
, respectively.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
Cited by
23 articles.
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